Fix unicode decoding

gotlaufs · Dec 5, 2017 · 2e3e9ac · 2e3e9ac
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diff --git a/RASPBERRY/twitter_handler.py b/RASPBERRY/twitter_handler.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import json
 import logging
 import re
-import unicodedata
+import unidecode
 import twitter
 
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def get_messages_clean(self):
             text = text.lstrip()
             text = text.rstrip()
             # Convert characters to ASCII
-            text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text)
+            text = unidecode.unidecode(text)
             # text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
 
             sl[i]["Text"] = text

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -11,4 +11,6 @@ Dependencies (get all of them through pip3):
  - picamera
  - pyserial
  - python-twitter
+ - tinydb
+ - unidecode